Credit: Andy Singer

Credit: Andy Singer

"The boulevard is the only part of the built environment in Southern California that operates simultaneously at local and regional scale. It defines the neighborhood block even as it gives sprawl a spine."

Christopher Hawthorne

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

"Dynamic cities have three things: technology, talent and tolerance. Those cities are magnets for creative people to come and live. The fairness amendment is consistent with the most leading-edge data on what is good for a city."

— Former Lincoln Sen. David Landis on the non-discrimination ordinance proposal hearings in Lincoln, Nebraska

Diagram of missing middle housing types illustrating the range of types and their location between single-family homes and mid-rise buildings

Diagram of missing middle housing types illustrating the range of types and their location between single-family homes and mid-rise buildings

thiscitylife:

I’ve written before about how much I enjoy living in a small home in a walkable neighbourhood. Apparently I am not the only one. Real estate trends, urban planning theorists, and architects in North America are coming to the realization that more and more young people - Generation Y - and even…